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Is Vinyl Dead Yet?
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| alanzo |
| Just a quick question, what's the current status of vinyl records? Are any major EDM labels still releasing on them? |
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| MSZ |
No it doesnt seem to be dead. I havent bought a record in like 6 years lol... It seems more thriving in certain niches, I wouldn't say so much trance. I know those Armada dudes still do the vinyl thing.
just check some online record stores. A lot of the local ones are dead haha. |
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| sleeping |
| Bonzai is still releasing vinyl |
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| Evolve140 |
| Tons of bands still do. |
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| Teezdalien |
It's certainly not dead, I've been buying more vinyl over the last few months than I have over the last three/four years. I can often find releases going as cheap or cheaper (besides shipping) than digital online releases, and I much prefer having a tangible product. There are still quite a few exclusive vinyl only releases.
A vinyl collection picked with a lot of love and care commands much more respect than a bunch of mp3s or wav's on a HD imo. |
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| Storyteller |
Some labels still go for vinyl, not that many. Often they go for a number of copies that the minimum to break even on vinyl production. So that's somewhere around 300 copies usually.
Outside EDM the vinyl is on it's way back for a few years already with repressings of the classics and some other old big records. |
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| Woony |
EVERYTHING in the respected Techno & House & Dubstep world gets pressed to wax and there's been quite a bit of vinyl only stuff popping up in the last few years.
There's probably more people releasing vinyl right now than in the 90s, but the average number of copies sold for a release is only around 300 instead of a few thousand. |
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| Looney4Clooney |
| it is a collector item. Vinyl as a an practical commodity, dead. Like the cd. It will be around as long as people get a boner for old audio stuff. |
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| DJ RANN |
| quote: | Originally posted by Woony
There's probably more people releasing vinyl right now than in the 90s, but the average number of copies sold for a release is only around 300 instead of a few thousand. |
I highly doubt that. IN the 90's there was no other feasible way to distribute music to DJs. There were hundreds if of new releases every week, in hundreds of record stores and I'm just talking about the UK market. I know the dutch (where a lot of Europe's pressing plants were back in the day) had literally thousands of releases every week.
Bear in mind, sales of Turntables actually overtook guitar sales by the late 90's.
As as niche thing it't thriving, as a mainstream medium it's quite mixed - some bands have released and got strong album sales on viny. The xx sold over 11,000 just on vinyl, which is enough to get you a top 5 entry in the UK these days.
According to NPR vinyl sales increased by 14% in 2010 and sales were even better in 2011, but apparently that's still only about 1% of all album sales.
So in essence, no it's not dead, it took a kicking when digital came about but it's growing again, but it's just not a viable medium by itself for major distribution. |
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| alanzo |
| quote: | Originally posted by Looney4Clooney
it is a collector item. Vinyl as a an practical commodity, dead. Like the cd. It will be around as long as people get a boner for old audio stuff. |
Haha. Made me laugh and is probably the most correct post. Nicely done. |
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| DJ RANN |
| quote: | Originally posted by Looney4Clooney
it is a collector item. Vinyl as a an practical commodity, dead. Like the cd. It will be around as long as people get a boner for old audio stuff. |
I have to disagree with this. The huge difference is that there's no just point in CD's anymore - DVD's hold more and can take higher fidelity formats, same with any modern digital medium but vinyl sounds better - plain and simple, and there's a tactile advantage with vinyl, making it the most fun way to mix (don't make get in to the DVS argument on here). |
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| Seandroid |
| quote: | Originally posted by Looney4Clooney
it is a collector item. Vinyl as a an practical commodity, dead. Like the cd. It will be around as long as people get a boner for old audio stuff. |
QFT |
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